Winner of the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar at the 1964 Academy Awards, "Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow" is a sparklingly original comedy that casts Marcello Mastroianni and Sophia Loren in three different stories set throughout Italy. In Naples, they are poor but resourceful, selling black market cigarettes on the streets. In Milan, Loren is costumed in Christian Dior and debates her preference for a Rolls Royce or her husband. And in Rome, Mastroianni is an industry scion who helps Loren’s prostitute set a wavering priest back onto the spiritual plane. This episode features Sophia’s famous striptease, which was recreated 30 years later in Robert Altman’s "Ready To Wear". Witty and unforgettable, this gem from master filmmaker Vittorio de Sica ("Two Women", "Marriage Italian Style") is picture-postcard beautiful and effortlessly hilarious.

In this Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Language Film, Marcello Mastroianni co-stars as the irrepressibly carnal businessman Domenico, who discovers Sophia Loren's Filumena as a young prostitute. When he chooses to marry a young cashier instead of her, Filumena is furious, and resorts to a series of wild and hilarious ruses to win back his hand.

Renowned filmmaker Vittorio De Sica followed up his international triumph BICYCLE THIEVES with this enchantingly playful neorealist fairy tale, in which he combines his celebrated slice-of-life poetry with flights of graceful comedy and storybook fantasy. On the outskirts of Milan, a band of vagabonds work together to form a shantytown. When it is discovered that the land they occupy contains oil, however, it’s up to the cherubic orphan Totò (Francesco Golisano)—with some divine help—to save their community from greedy developers. Tipping their hats to the imaginative whimsy of Charles Chaplin and René Clair, De Sica and screenwriter Cesare Zavattini, adapting his own novel, craft a bighearted ode to the nobility of everyday people.

In the Italy of WWII, a widow and her lonely daughter seek for distance between them and the horrors of war.

Faye Dunaway and Marcello Mastroianni star in this intense romance. American divorcée Julia invites an intriguing Italian engineer, Valerio, to join her in a sumptuous Alpine chalet after they meet in an airport. But she doesn't reveal that she has a terminal illness until her fear almost drives her to suicide. Only her love--and a death-defying act--can restore her will to live.

Hailed around the world as one of the greatest movies ever made, the Academy Award–winning Bicycle Thieves, directed by Vittorio De Sica, defined an era in cinema. In poverty-stricken postwar Rome, a man is on his first day of a new job that offers hope of salvation for his desperate family when his bicycle, which he needs for work, is stolen. With his young son in tow, he sets off to track down the thief. Simple in construction and profoundly rich in human insight, Bicycle Thieves embodies the greatest strengths of the Italian neorealist movement: emotional clarity, social rectitude, and brutal honesty.

This neorealist masterpiece by Vittorio De Sica follows an elderly pensioner as he strives to make ends meet during Italy’s postwar economic recovery. Alone except for his dog, Flike, Umberto struggles to maintain his dignity in a city where human kindness seems to have been swallowed up by the forces of modernization. His simple quest to satisfy his basic needs—food, shelter, companionship—makes for one of the most heartbreaking stories ever filmed, and an essential classic of world cinema.

If you're rich, she's available! Kim Novak plays the title role and goes from bed to better in The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders, a bawdy comedy based on Daniel Defoe's classic novel. An all-star supporting cast—Angela Lansbury, George Sanders, Lilli Palmer, Leo McKern, Cecil Parker and others—joins the fun as Moll sets out on her (ahem) well-laid plan to make schemes come true in 18th-century London. She masquerades as a rich widow to land a wealthy nobleman (Richard Johnson), never dreaming that he's actually a highwayman posing to win the presumably-rich Moll. What a perfect match!

Based on the best-selling book by Morris L. West, this sweeping epic follows Academy Award-winner Anthony Quinn ("Zorba the Greek", "Lawrence of Arabia") as a Russian political prisoner who becomes Pope and tries to prevent an atomic war. Also starring Oscar-winners Sir Lawrence Olivier ("Wuthering Heights," "Marathon Man") and Sir John Gielgud ("Arthur," "Ghandi"), and TV's original "Fugitive," David Janssen. Received Oscar nominations for Best Original Score and Art Direction.

French master Max Ophuls’s most cherished work, The Earrings of Madame de...is an emotionally profound, cinematographically adventurous tale of false opulence and tragic romance. When the aristocratic woman known only as Madame de (the extraordinary Danielle Darrieux) sells her earrings, unbeknownst to her husband (Charles Boyer), in order to pay personal debts, she sets off a chain reaction, the financial and carnal consequences of which can only end in despair. Ophuls adapts Louise de Vilmorin’s incisive fin de siècle novel with virtuosic camera work so elegant and precise it’s been called the equal to that of Orson Welles.

A kidnapped gangster turns his captors into a crack band of crooks.

Based on the best-selling book by Morris L. West, this sweeping epic follows Academy Award-winner Anthony Quinn ("Zorba the Greek", "Lawrence of Arabia") as a Russian political prisoner who becomes Pope and tries to prevent an atomic war. Also starring Oscar-winners Sir Lawrence Olivier ("Wuthering Heights," "Marathon Man") and Sir John Gielgud ("Arthur," "Ghandi"), and TV's original "Fugitive," David Janssen. Received Oscar nominations for Best Original Score and Art Direction.

Based on the Ernest Hemingway novel and set against the backdrop of the Italian front during World War I, an American Army volunteer (Rock Hudson) meets a British nurse (Jennifer Jones) on the eve of the big offensive in the Alps and they fall passionately in love. Torn apart by war and the jealous meddling of Henry's "friend", Major Rinaldi (Vittorio De Sica), the star-crossed lovers escape to Switzerland to reunite and await the birth of their child and the tragic conclusion to their once-in-a-lifetime romance.